yes Nokia had years to come up with a better OS and they didn't. Even Samsung failed at this endeavor years later.

They had MeeGo (Qt/Linux). For some reason they thought that not worth it to continue. Let's take Windows!

I've always asumed it wasn't a good enough OS just from the consumer news articles I read, was a freshman at the time. What was technically remarkable about it?

It was a direct competitor for Android at that time. GUI was really nice. I don't think it was essentially worse than Android. There was the potential.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/31z13e/is_...

http://www.eedailynews.com/2010/05/android-vs-meego-two-appr...